With topics that span the sixteenth century to the present in Latin America, the United States, Australia, the Middle East, and West Africa, the contributors show how ethnopornography-the eroticized observation of the Other for supposedly scientific or academic purposes-is fundamental to the creation of race, colonialism, and archival and ethnographic knowledge.

Pete Sigal is Professor of History and Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies at Duke University.

Zeb Tortorici is Associate Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Literatures at New York University.

Neil L. Whitehead (1956–2012) was Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.